Chicago World News Tower
is inspired by Tribune Tower, Chicago, Illinois
Inspired by a real place
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
A neo-gothic City Hotspot home to the Chicago World News, the city's most read paper. Its hotspot text tells the story of a design contest held for the paper's new headquarters.
The real place
Tribune Tower was built after the Chicago Tribune held an international design contest in 1922, won by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood. Finished in 1925, it has fragments of famous buildings and sites from around the world set into its outer walls. The Tribune moved out in 2018 and the tower has since been turned into homes.
Visiting
Walk around the base and look for the labelled stones in the walls at street level. It sits on Michigan Avenue at the north end of the DuSable Bridge, facing the Wrigley Building.
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